The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-28

He would not have served IL ne had been elected.
and he could not have served IL he had not re-
signed so II is apparent that no man In Neoras-
ka has been further from legislative member
| ship than Buffalo Bill
THE professor in Hamilton College TO whom
| President Cleveland referred in his reminiscent
speech az Clinton, as having pony on Virgil
while mis- mr.. Cleveland'sl copy Of the Latin
| poet had bot even Lotes as help TO translation,
was Oren Root the professor of mathematics.
THIRTY Buffalo men have already subscribed
800 cash toward the 800. 600 prize for an IN
vention which will turn TO practical account the
power going TO waste in Niagara's current
| Others have pledged s. 900 more in smaller
sums. Letters of inquiry from inventors and
engineers are beginning TO pour in on the Mayor
of Buffalo.
Col DANIEL. S. LAMONT, NJ A. and p s. is
enduring the hot wessher with great deal OF
equanimity Like most small men he retains
drop and wilt. Colonel Lamont is about FIVE
feet six inches in height and weighs l45 pounds,
mustache included. Bis face is somewhat fuller
than when he entered the White House
j. E. HAssLER, Of PlacervilIe. Cal, was cut
ting two-foot oak tree when the was ruined
by striking something hard Investigation
showed large granite bowlder in the center of
the tree, without any marks to show how it
came there. The tree was perfect in every other
respect. The bowlder was found in the trunk
below branch.
THE University of Kings College Windsor
Nova Scotia is the oldest of all the British North
American colleges. The royal charter under
which 1t was founded in 17sS explicitly provides
that it's academical habits shall be the same as
those of the University of Oxford. And it's
encenia is conducted every year with all the
pomp and circumstance of an Oxford encenia-
The Rev. DR.. Isaac Brock. Oxon., is thu presi-
dent
MAY SHARPsTEEN is little girl of seven who
is heiress to 81, 0000 00 She inherits the money
from her late father, who a member of the
firm of Arnold. Constable & Co.. of New York
city. Miss Sharpsteen narrowly escaped death
few days ago at Sea Grit A team of horses
attached to a lawn-mower ran away, and made
straight for the frightened child. Fortunately.
the horses swerved little and the blade of the
cutter missed the little girl by few inches
only.
CALIFORNIA is nothing ifnot original. says
gossiper in the San Francisco Chronicle. The
latest ideas in mementoes to be given by a lot of
men to the one OF their number who is leaving
them is quite unique and quite Californian. OF
course he gets dinner; and after dinner every
one of the guests writes his name and ap-
propriate legend in lead pencil the front of
his dress shirt, and the guest has it framed in
plush and hung up in his room after he gets
sober
Ex-CoNG FRESHMAN G. F. REED owns the largest
wheatfeld in the world in Stanislaus county, Calls
fornia- It consists of TO- 900 in broken
stretch along the banks of the San Joaquin
river and much of the land is protected by
levees. as the stream is higher than the shore.
The grain this year high the back of
horse and it is estimated the yield will be forty
bushels to the This wall give 400, 900
bushels which will load ten large vessels.
IN accordance with new law in New York
the hotel managers are introducing coils of rope
in the sleeping rooms of hotels for the use of
guests in the time of fire. Thirty-seven miles
of rope have been ordered for the hotels owned
by the Hilton or Stewart estates Hotel man
ayers at session In convention make many com
plainto sgainst the law. They say that the
presence of these ropes will lead many cranks to
them for suicidal purposes; that enc man in
ten cannot 60 down rope hand over hand, and
that for all practical purposes the precaution of
placing a rope in each room will not amount to
anything
IT is told of Vice president Potter, of the
Union Pacific. that he entered the power house
at the Council Bluffs transfer few days ago in
search of economy. The engineer and an assist
ant were busily engaged on the latest illustrated
papers, but stopped for q moment to cast cyni-
cal glance at the unknown intruder. What
your duties here, my menu whispered Mr. Pot
ter, in a mellow guivering voice ''Why-why,
we blow the whistle three times day cheerily
responded the engineer. 1--WE can dispense with
the whistles and your services" said Mr.. Potter.
The order promptly obeyed and the whistle
and power-house silent and tenantless.